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iMac 2017 Ram upgrade limitations?

I have a 2017 27 inch iMac with a 3.4Ghz processor which I'm looking to upgrade the RAM on. Checking on the Specs on the support page here: https://support.apple.com/kb/SP760?locale=en_AU I noticed it only advises that it is configurable to 32GB. Despite there being four slots available and the other models (3.5 and 3.8Ghz) both able to configure up to 64.

I was hoping to fill the iMac with 4x 2400MHz Kingston DDR4 16GB RAM Chips.

Can anyone tell me why it's only configurable to 32GB and what would happen if I were to fill up the slots to 64?


Cheers,

K.

iMac 27" 5K, macOS 10.15

Posted on May 4, 2020 12:16 AM

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Posted on May 4, 2020 12:25 AM

It actually unofficially supports up to 64 GB and fully utilizes it


https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-i5-3.4-27-inch-aluminum-retina-5k-mid-2017-specs.html


I have the exact same model and have two 16 sticks and two 4 sticks so I have 40 GB of RAM


So yes you can put 64 GB of RAM in and it’ll fully work

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May 4, 2020 12:25 AM in response to Kitastropher

It actually unofficially supports up to 64 GB and fully utilizes it


https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-i5-3.4-27-inch-aluminum-retina-5k-mid-2017-specs.html


I have the exact same model and have two 16 sticks and two 4 sticks so I have 40 GB of RAM


So yes you can put 64 GB of RAM in and it’ll fully work

iMac 2017 Ram upgrade limitations?

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